Alternatives

What are the alternatives to Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 ranks 26 of 94 in the overall index and costs $6 per million tokens.

Claude Sonnet 5.5: Ahead in the overall index (121.8 vs. 101.1) and cheaper ($4 vs. $6 per million tokens).

MiMo V2.6 Flash: Level in the overall index (97.3 vs. 101.1) but cheaper: $0.18 instead of $6 per million tokens.

The alternatives by reason

Every card names the values it rests on. A model appears only once.

Stronger, not much pricier
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Ahead in the overall index (121.8 vs. 101.1) and cheaper ($4 vs. $6 per million tokens).
Overall index
121.8
Price (3:1)
$4
Speed
103
Rank 5 · Upper group
Head to head: Kimi K3 vs. Claude Sonnet 5.5 Open the profile
Similar strength, cheaper
MiMo V2.6 Flash
Level in the overall index (97.3 vs. 101.1) but cheaper: $0.18 instead of $6 per million tokens.
Overall index
97.3
Price (3:1)
$0.18
Speed
38
Rank 38 · Middle group
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With open weights
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
The best model with open weights, stronger: 106.7 vs. 101.1 in the overall index.
Overall index
106.7
Price (3:1)
$0.26
Speed
126
Rank 20 · Middle group
Head to head: Kimi K3 vs. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Open the profile
Similar strength, faster
Claude Haiku 5.5
Level in the overall index (102.8 vs. 101.1) and faster: 164 instead of 61 tokens per second.
Overall index
102.8
Price (3:1)
$0.20
Speed
164
Rank 23 · Middle group
Head to head: Kimi K3 vs. Claude Haiku 5.5 Open the profile
The successor
Kimi K3.1 Pro
The successor to Kimi K3. Overall index 112.6 vs. 101.1.
Overall index
112.6
Price (3:1)
$4
Speed
56
Rank 13 · Middle group
Head to head: Kimi K3 vs. Kimi K3.1 Pro Open the profile

The nearest generally available models by overall index, with rank, price and speed. Models with limited access and retired models are left out.

Rank	Model	Overall index	Price (3:1)	Speed
24	Grok 4.6	102.1	$3	58
25	GPT-5.5	101.5	$11.25	87
26	Kimi K3this model	101.1	$6	61
27	GPT-5.6 Terra	100.8	$4.50	72
28	Mistral Large 4	100.8	$1.05	n/a
29	Qwen 3.8 Max 0902	100.8	$2.48	36
30	GLM-5.3	100.6	$2.15	81
31	MiMo V2.6 Pro	100.4	$0.54	32

Price in dollars per million tokens, mixed from 3 parts input and 1 part output. Speed in tokens per second.